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  Tech guns for hire: 5 places to find skilled IT contractors

  Even for organizations with a stellar full-time IT staff, situations often arise where temporary outside help is needed. A big Web project might demand a few extra programmers to meet a tough deadline, for example, or a rollout of tools to support a sales force bent on capturing a broader market may require expertise not available in-house.

  By Logan Kugler | 22 May, 2012 20:08

  Tags: software, services, project management, outsourcing, IDC, applications

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  The Grill: TASC CIO Barbie Bigelow

  After spinning off from Northrop Grumman in 2009, TASC had one year to establish itself as an independent company. That meant the 6,000-employee systems engineering operation needed to deploy a new IT infrastructure. In overseeing that effort, TASC CIO Barbie Bigelow built an IT organization and infrastructure from scratch. Her team spent about eight months working with 64 vendors and partners to design and build an operation that included a new ERP system, more than 4,000 computers, 800 mobile devices, 400 network devices and 134 data circuits across 60 facilities -- and they did it in six weeks. Here, Bigelow discusses the failures and successes that the team experienced as they pursued the aggressive schedule, and she reflects on how TASC's IT unit has evolved.

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 21 May, 2012 20:11

  Tags: software, project management, Northrop Grumman, Management and Careers, ERP, enterprise resource planning, applications

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  Career advice: Careers in the cloud

  Allan Hackney of John Hancock Financial Services Ask a Premier 100 IT Leader Allan Hackney Title: Senior vice president and CIOCompany: John Hancock Financial Services

  By Allan Hackney | 08 May, 2012 01:45

  Tags: software, project management, it management, internet, cloud computing, careers, applications

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  Turning Long Demands Into a Short List

  As the top IT executive at Aspen Skiing for the past 16 years, Paul Major has become skilled at keeping multiple balls in the air.

  By Beth Stackpole | 07 May, 2012 23:36

  Tags: software, project management, Management and Careers, it management, IT Leadership, CIO role, applications

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  Citrix buys Podio for social collaboration, project management software

  Citrix said Wednesday it has acquired Podio, maker of a cloud-based software platform for project management and collaboration. Terms were not disclosed.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 11 April, 2012 23:46

  Tags: applications, Basecamp, business issues, Citrix, cloud computing, collaboration, internet, Internet-based applications and services, Jive Software, mergers and acquisitions, Podio, project management, software, Yammer

• Run IT as a business - why that's a train wreck waiting to happen

  "If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction," said famed World War II German resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer. We in IT boarded the wrong train a long time ago. It's the "standard model" of information technology organizations - the familiar litany that says CIOs should run IT as a business, meeting the requirements of its internal customers. This refrain has been endorsed by our holy trinity, too: analyst firms, most consultancies and ITIL.

  By Bob Lewis | 18 January, 2010 22:15

  Tags: it management, project management

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  5 open source project management apps to watch

  Five open source project management tools to help CIOs and IT project managers keep their projects on-track and on-schedule -- without blowing the budget!

  By Rodney Gedda | 14 September, 2010 13:40

  Tags: open source, project management

• 5 free project management applications you must try

  Project management applications are usually centered around Gantt charts, where each step in a project is represented as a bar in the chart. These visuals are linked to lists of the resources tied to each task

  By Howard Wen | 08 September, 2009 14:19

  Tags: project management

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  5 Tips on How to Get Your Project Finished On Time

  Project management is one of the most frustrating and emotionally charged areas for managers and project teams alike. Here are five tips for getting your project to the finish line on time.

  By CIO Staff | 19 May, 2009 12:47

  Tags: project management

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  CIOs must become competitive players in managing relationships between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerisation, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. This interactive white paper from CIO Magazine and EMC explores this transformation as a leadership opportunity, as an opportunity to create new models for IT, and as a catalyst to fundamentally change the dynamic between IT and the business. Embedded videos feature CIOs from T-Mobile USA and Wharton School of Business and a quick survey provides benchmarking between CIO peers.

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